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Post by Ssmith Sun Jan 29, 2023 11:51 am

More than 750 artifacts discovered in Basra 1/29/23 Part-of-the-artifacts-discovered-in-Basra.-Photo-Al-Ain-News
Part of the artifacts discovered in Basra. Photo: Al-Ain News

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) – The Department of Investigation and Excavations of the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage (SBAH) announced the discovery of 756 artifacts in Basra governorate.

The Department of Investigation and Excavations mentioned in a statement that the discovered artifacts are made of pottery, glazed pottery, pieces of copper, and others made of stone and ivory, in addition to silver coins dating back to Islamic times.

The statement indicated that pieces bearing emblems and pictures of Sassanian kings, coins dating back to the Umayyad era bearing the year of minting, and other coins dating back to the Abbasid era were among the discoveries.

Iraq includes six archaeological sites listed in the UNESCO’s World Heritage List. These sites are Erbil Citadel, Al-Hatra, Ashur, Samarra Archaeological City, Babylon and the Ahwar of Southern Iraq.

Iraq has more than 150 thousand archaeological sites, according to the latest survey, and these sites include living traces of the Assyrian, Babylonian, Akkadian, urban and Islamic civilizations and everything related to the Mesopotamian civilizations.              LINK
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